Caveat: I like equity markets, as a family my father started investing in 1950s, I started investing in 1979, have enjoyed the process so far. I am completely indifferent to YOUR views on the market and whether you invest, hate, love or are obsessed with the market. Article: The equity markets are one of […]

Awake! Arise! Stop Not till the Goal is Reached said Swami Vivekananda. He was too much of a Motivator to be called a Saint, and too Saintly to be called a Motivator. Of course he was not like today’s Motivators..if only he had left tapes, videos, …it would have been great. His books stir you, […]

  A few days back I did the ‘Avani Aavittam’ – this is an annual ritual of changing your ‘sacred thread’ (called Janaiv in Hindi and Poonal in Tamil Nadu and Kerala). On the morning of the Avani Aavittam, you apologise for not doing your karmas. Normally you do not do your duty in life […]

Has the market gone up too fast? Will it compensate for the non performance from 2008 to 2014 Jan/ Feb? Will the NaMo impact take the market to 100,000 in his tenure? So will the market come down now? Read this OLD ARTICLE (WRITTEN in 2008) – just the numbers have changed…facts remain the same, […]

It was in 2008 when the first time one Indian regulator used the word REIT. Many people in the industry got excited and the media said this will bring real estate within the reach of the common man and about US $ 10 billion will flow in. I had seen the regulation and asked one […]

When you are young peer pressure is difficult to handle. However even when you grow older peer pressure seems to be difficult to handle. If you have created an image for yourself (which is not true) and you keep trying to live up to that image, you really struggle. How does one really handle peer […]

this is my article as it appears in Economic Times as it appeared…such articles generate a lot of anger…people who have bought neither RE or stocks will keep asking:   1. what if I had bought in Mira road instead of  Santacruz? 2. Did the author do it himself ? 3. What nonsense is this? […]